Certainly Maildir with qmail-pop3d will help here, though it
should be noted that many clients don't cope well if a download
exceeds a certain time such as the time between mailbox checks.
Most of the pop servers that work on mbox format mailboxes have
to scan the whole file searching for "^From " strings - this takes
a long time with large files.
Regards.
On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 09:54:33AM -0700, Steve Quezadas wrote:
> I have a client that is very unwisely using his email server as a sort of FTP server
>where people are sending him very large attachments. His mailbox size is about 250
>megabytes and he receives emails daily that are about 10 - 25 megabytes big (I told
>him not to do this and to simply use FTP, but he insists on doing everything through
>email).
>
> Anyway, the system is slow and he is getting timeout errors left and right. I am
>currently using the mbox format, but was wondering if there are better formats out
>there (maildir?) for email servers with a low number of emails, but high attachment
>size.
>
> What is the best mail format out there for people who get a small number of messages
>with large attachments? Will it work with IMAP?
>
> - Steve
